dc.contributor.author | Lavigne, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Liverani, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-20T10:29:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-27 | |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-20T10:29:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1879-2103 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/90801 | |
dc.description.abstract | Bayesian clustering models, such as Dirichlet process mixture models (DPMMs), are sophisticated flexible
models. They induce a posterior distribution on the set of all partitions of a set of observations. Analysing
this posterior distribution is of great interest, but it comes with several challenges. First of all, the number of
partitions is overwhelmingly large even for moderate values of the number of observations. Consequently the
sample space of the posterior distribution of the partitions is not explored well by MCMC samplers. Second,
due to the complexity of representing the uncertainty of partitions, usually only maximum a posteriori
estimates of the posterior distribution of partitions are provided and discussed in the literature. In this
paper we propose a numerical and graphical method for quantifying the uncertainty of the clusters of a given
partition of the data and we suggest how this tool can be used to learn about the partition uncertainty | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Statistics and Probability Letters | |
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dc.title | Quantifying the uncertainty of partitions for infinite mixture models | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. | |
pubs.notes | Not known | en_US |
pubs.publication-status | Accepted | en_US |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-08-27 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en_US |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en_US |